Book 1 of the Faery QueeneClarendon Press, 1875 - 251 páginas |
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Página xiii
... says ) in the armour spoken of by St. Paul , and guided by snow- Spenser thus translates that virtue of Magnanimity , which seemed to Aristotle to contain in itself all the moral virtues . It is perhaps hardly necessary to add that ...
... says ) in the armour spoken of by St. Paul , and guided by snow- Spenser thus translates that virtue of Magnanimity , which seemed to Aristotle to contain in itself all the moral virtues . It is perhaps hardly necessary to add that ...
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... says of him— " Let others sing of knights and palladines In aged accents and untimely words . " A little later , Ben Jonson declares that " Spenser writ no language . " In the eighteenth century the classical writers could scarcely ...
... says of him— " Let others sing of knights and palladines In aged accents and untimely words . " A little later , Ben Jonson declares that " Spenser writ no language . " In the eighteenth century the classical writers could scarcely ...
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... say that a young student is as likely to gain a vivid conception of duty and virtue from his pages as from those works which deal in a more exact manner with the moral constitution of man's nature . Here the qualities and actions of man ...
... say that a young student is as likely to gain a vivid conception of duty and virtue from his pages as from those works which deal in a more exact manner with the moral constitution of man's nature . Here the qualities and actions of man ...
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... say gives counsell best . Right well , Sir knight , ye have advised bin , ( Quoth then that aged man ) the way to win Is wisely to advise : now day is spent ; Therefore with me ye may take up your in For this same night . The knight was ...
... say gives counsell best . Right well , Sir knight , ye have advised bin , ( Quoth then that aged man ) the way to win Is wisely to advise : now day is spent ; Therefore with me ye may take up your in For this same night . The knight was ...
Página 20
... And yeelding soft , in that she nought gain - said ; So forth they rode , he feining seemely merth , And she coy lookes : so dainty they say maketh derth . 28 Long time they thus together traveiled , Til weary 20 THE FAERY QUEENE .
... And yeelding soft , in that she nought gain - said ; So forth they rode , he feining seemely merth , And she coy lookes : so dainty they say maketh derth . 28 Long time they thus together traveiled , Til weary 20 THE FAERY QUEENE .
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Archimago Ariosto armes armour banns of marriage beast blood bloud brest CANTO Chaucer cruell dame dead deadly deare death doth dragon dread dreadfull Du Cange elfin knight English eternall eyes Faery Queene faire false Duessa fast feare feeble fell fierce fight gentle Gloss goodly Goth grace griefe groning hand hart hast hath heaven heavenly hight house of Pride Icel king lady Latin light lord Lord Leicester mighty never nigh nought paine Paynim phrase Piers Ploughman poets powre pray pret pride Prince Arthur pron proud quoth rage Red Cross Knight says seemd seems selfe sense Shepheards Calender shew shield shyning sight sonne sore sorrow Spenser spide stanza subst Tale thee thence thou tree truth unto vaine verb viii wandring weary weene whence wondrous wont word wound wyde yron
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Página 168 - Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate; Sad Acheron, of sorrow, black and deep; Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.
Página 15 - By this the Northerne wagoner had set His sevenfold teme behind the stedfast starre, That was in Ocean waves yet never wet, But firme is fixt, and sendeth light from farre To all, that in the wide deepe wandring arre...
Página xxvi - I have followed all the antique Poets historicall; first Homere, who in the Persons of Agamemnon and Ulysses hath ensampled a good governour and a vertuous man, the one in his Ilias, the other in his Odysseis: then Virgil, whose like intention was to doe in the person of Aeneas: after him Ariosto comprised them both in his Orlando : and lately Tasso dissevered them...
Página 118 - She was araied all in lilly white, And in her right hand bore a cup of gold, With wine and water fild up to the hight, In which a serpent did himselfe enfold, That horrour made to all that did behold ; But she no...
Página 13 - And, more to lulle him in his slumber soft, A trickling streame from high rock tumbling downe, And ever-drizling raine upon the loft, Mixt with a murmuring winde, much like the sowne Of swarming bees, did cast him in a swowne. No other noyse, nor peoples troublous cryes, As still are wont t'annoy the walled towne, Might there be heard : but carelesse Quiet lyes, Wrapt in eternall silence farre from enimyes.
Página 114 - Come, come away, fraile, feeble, fleshly wight, Ne let vaine words bewitch thy manly hart, Ne divelish thoughts dismay thy constant spright. In heavenly mercies hast thou not a part? Why shouldst thou then despeire, that chosen art?
Página 6 - And as she lay upon the durtie ground, Her huge long taile her den all overspred, Yet was in knots and many boughtes upwound, Pointed with mortall sting.
Página xxviii - Queene to assygne her some one of her knights to take on him that exployt. Presently that clownish person, upstarting, desired that adventure : whereat the Queene much wondering, and the Lady much gainesaying, yet he earnestly importuned his desire.
Página 3 - A GENTLE Knight was pricking on the plaine, Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine, The cruell markes of many a bloody fielde ; Yet armes till that time did he never wield : His angry steede did chide his foming bitt, As much disdayning to the curbe to yield : Full jolly knight he seemd, and faire did sitt, As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt.
Página 82 - Upon the top of all his loftie crest, A bunch of haires discolourd diversly, With sprincled pearle, and gold full richly drest, Did shake, and seemd to daunce for jollity ; Like to an almond tree ymounted hye On top of greene Selinis all alone, With blossoms brave bedecked daintily; Whose tender locks do tremble every one At every little breath, that under heaven is blowne.